>I don’t have a problem with elevated blood pressure, doubtless as the result of clean-living and impeccable restraint.

120/80 for as long as I can remember, except when I see some able-bodied person parking in a mobility-impaired space or parents crossing the road with kids on a “Don’t walk” phase.

Then it goes up.

But you can’t be too careful and one of the few things I remember from Physics at school is that Pressure, Volume and Temperature in a closed system have a pretty steady relationship – increase one and at least one of the other two go up as well.

It works the other way round, too, which is why I’m at the transfusion unit at the University Clinic in Mainz for some ritual bloodletting.

Figured that if they drain off a litre or so of blood, then my blood pressure would drop accordingly.

Or I’ll feel bloody cold.

Or both…

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